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Non-Orthodox / LGBTQ+ / US / News Briefs

NJ Kosher Bakery Faces Boycotts for Declining Pride Rainbow Orders from Conservative Synagogue

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The local Federation actually stated the bakery’s decision was not aligned with Jewish values.

Palestinian Authority / LGBTQ+

Gay PA Arab Asylum Seeker Beheaded in Hebron

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The victim was identified as Ahmad Abu Murkiyeh, who according to Israeli media had lived in Israel for the past two years as an asylum seeker, as his life would be in danger if he returned to PA controlled areas.

Photo of the Day

Arrested!

By Photo of the Day

Baruch Marzel was arrested for standing in protest outside the permitted area.

News Briefs / Jerusalem / Health and Medicine

LGBT, Ethiopian Groups Praise MDA's Blood Donation Decision

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

"I consider it a victory and another sign that Israeli society, which supports the community, is fed up with the conservative vision of the politicians.”

Headline / Jewish / Politics / UK / On Campus / Education

Vizhnitz Girls' School Fails Three Inspections for Refusing to Teach LGBT Issues

By JNi.Media

As a matter of course, Vizhnitz devotes little or no time to learning about sexual orientation, other than those well known verses in Leviticus that frown on guys behaving like girls.

Featured / IDF & Security / Politics

IDF Issued Regulations on Sensitivity to Enlisted LGBT

By JNi.Media

Instead of asking his soldier if his girlfriend is waiting for him at home, it would be preferable for the commander to ask if his girlfriend or boyfriend is waiting at home.

Photo of the Day

A Gay Rabbinate

By Photo of the Day

Meretz LGBTQ activists leave their mark on the Jerusalem Rabbinate.

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

Religious Zionist Rabbi Offers Homosexuals Alternative Approaches

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Anachnu NGO received many requests from gay men asking to be set up with lesbian women...

Interviews and Profiles

Meet the Activist Rabbi and his Gay Bodyguard: the Knesset’s Most Incredible Allies

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

After Rabbi Yehuda Glick was shot by a would-be assassin, Amir Ohana stepped in to act as his personal bodyguard.

NY / Politics / News Briefs / Judaism

Orthodox Shul Will Keep LGBT Shabbaton Despite Neighborhood Rabbis' Objection

By JNi.Media

"We encourage you to show your support by coming to shul this Shabbat for services and for the Shabbaton programming, and we welcome your feedback, questions, and notes of support."

Haredim & Hassidim / NY / News Briefs / Religion / Judaism / Assimilation

Lower East Side Rabbis Hint at Excommunicating Orthodox Shul for LGBT Shabbaton

By JNi.Media

The signatories at the bottom of a letter titled "An important Message to the Community" include Rabbis David and Reuven Feinstein, the sons and spiritual heirs of the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.

Israel / Politics / Police and Crime / The Courts / News Briefs / Lebanon / Religion

Lebanese LGBT Activists Protest Anti-Homosexual Law

By JNi.Media

The punishment in Lebanon for "crimes against nature" is up to one year in prison.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israeli Arabs

Arab Knesset Member Damns Leftists as 'Rich Racists' Who Feign 'Peace'

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

MK Jamal Zahalka said everything that a right-winger thinks but would not dare say about leftists - "racist", "spoiled" and "engineers of expulsion."

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset

Labor MKs Complain of Aggressive Coercion from Gay Party Activists to Support LGBT Campaign

By JNi.Media

Labor MKs described threats from party activists, who promised political damage to MKs who chose not to tow the party line on this issue...

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

Radio Host: Rav Ovadia's Daughter Resembles Stabber Schlissel

By JNi.Media

"How can you live with the fact that Yishai Schlissel looks more like you than he does me?"

Israel / News Briefs

Rally against Violence Bars Religious MKs and Boos Right-Winger

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Homosexual leaders who organized last night's rally in Tel Aviv demanded that speakers sign a pledge supporting their cause.

UK / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

UK Jewish Schools Could Face Closure for Not Promoting Homosexuality

By Tibbi Singer

UK schools that are found to be ‘indoctrinating pupils about gay people’ will face closing under new rules designed to promote ‘British values,’ the British Government confirmed Monday.

Letters To The Editor

A Response to: Torah Values vs. “LGBT” Agenda

By Mordechai Levovitz

Mordechai Levovitz, the director of JQY responds to the op-ed by a writer who questioned the LGBT agenda vs. Torah Values.

Op-Eds

Torah Values vs. "LGBT" Agenda

By Anonymous

I want to have a wife and children in the natural way. I believe that is Hashem’s plan.

Op-Eds

Angry Mom Responds to Letter Writer

By Proud Mom

You want to exclude this group from supporting their homeland, using the Torah as an excuse.

Fink or Swim

We Are Not Under Attack By the LGBT Community

By Rabbi Eliyahu Fink

Orthodox Jews are free to teach Leviticus and we are free to deny any religious rights and privileges to anyone we so choose.

Israel / News Briefs / Gulf States / UAE

'Gay Detector' Will Prevent Gays from Entering Gulf States

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Most New Yorkers have heard the expression "gay-dar," which refers to someone's ability to determine whether another person is gay and straight. But Kuwaitis are claiming that their government will soon be able to administer a medical test to determine whether those entering the country are gay. Foreigners coming into the GCC countries are already […]

Jewish / NY

Y-Love - Jewish, Orthodox, Black... and Gay

By Malkah Fleisher

New York rapper Yitz “Y-Love” Jordan, famed black convert to Orthodox Judaism and celebrated artist, has announced that he is homosexual in an interview with Out magazine.

Serials

Getzlight - Chapter I

By Ruchama Feuerman

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